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"Mo Yan -- a beloved Chinese author who has captivated his countrymen by intertwining fantasy and gritty everyday life -- won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Mo the prestigious prize, saying the author's "hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.""

(CNN) -- This year's Nobel Peace Prize is shared between three women, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and activist Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and rights activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, the Nobel committee in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, announced Friday. The women were awarded the prize "for their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work," the committee said.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's most famous living poet Tomas Transtromer won the Nobel prize for literature on Thursday, more than 20 years after a stroke severely limited his speech and movement, but not the power of his writing.

Tomas Tranströmer, the Swedish poet whose sometimes bleak but powerful work explores themes of nature, isolation and identity, won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.

Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet whose sometimes bleak but graceful work explores themes of isolation, emotion and identity while remaining rooted in the commonplace, won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.

STOCKHOLM - A Canadian-born scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for his discoveries about the immune system but hours later his university said that he had been dead for three days. The Nobel committee had been unaware of Ralph Steinman's death and it was unclear whether the prize would be rescinded because Nobel statutes don't allow posthumous awards.

An Israeli scientist won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering quasicrystals, a material in which atoms were packed together in a well-defined pattern that never repeats.

An Israeli scientist won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering a material in which atoms were packed together in a well-defined pattern that never repeats.

Two American economists won the Nobel Prize for economics on Monday for their work studying how changes in government policies or economic shocks affect a nation's economy.

More scientists in Washington started talking, and 24 hours later everyone is asking more questions. As word spread that infectious salmon anemia, a deadly virus that has devastated farmed fish in Chile, had been found for the first time in prized wild Pacific salmon, there remained much uncertainty about the finding and what its potential impact could be.

"Teens today might have a mixed reputation, but there's no denying their influence. They command millions of fans on Twitter and Vine, start companies with funds they raised on Kickstarter, steal scenes on TV's most popular shows, lead protests with global ramifications, and even-as of Friday-win Nobel Peace Prizes. But which ones rise above the rest? We analyzed social-media followings, cultural accolades, business acumen and more to determine this year's list (ordered from youngest to oldest)."

"It took years, but I realized what I loved most in journalism was immersing myself in the lives of ordinary people, be it for a day or a week or for months, and telling their stories. Years ago, I started carrying around a William Faulkner quote in my wallet, from a speech he gave in 1950 accepting the Nobel Prize. He talked about how it was the writer's privilege to remind man of his finest qualities, his compassion and sacrifice, and to "help man endure by lifting his heart.""

"Aqeelah Mateen, left, Kelly Regan, center, and Johanna Perez-Fox, right, are the exceptions: while the world around them has divided along racial lines, they have stuck together."

"Cedric is one of a handful of honor students at Ballou, where the dropout rate is well into double digits and just 80 students out of more than 1,350 currently boast an average of B or better. They are a lonely lot. Cedric has almost no friends. Tall, gangly and unabashedly ambitious, he is a frequent target in a place where bullies belong to gangs and use guns; his life has been threatened more than once. He eats lunch in a classroom many days, plowing through extra work that he has asked for. "It's the only way I'll be able to compete with kids from other, harder schools," he says."

Sudanese billionaire and communications mogul Mo Ibrahim has issued a warning to African leaders clinging to power, saying people are no longer prepared to put up with bad governance on the continent.

(CNN) -- Sudanese billionaire and communications mogul Mo Ibrahim has issued a warning to African leaders clinging to power, saying people are no longer prepared to put up with bad governance on the continent.